Tag: Wine tasting
After the House, the Search for the Perfect Merlot
Personally, I have a hard time with Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec because they are real bruisers. Unless, of course, there’s a candlelit, air-conditioned romantic dinner involved…
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Spring Wine and Staycation!
The first seminar I attended was all about Pinot Noir. There were ten for us to taste and it was hosted by two Master Sommeliers and the winemakers.
Was I in heaven or what.
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The Zen of Zin – America’s Wine or Not?
I looked at the large tumbler filled with ice cubes and White Zinfandel fresh out of the box. It was topped with a colorful bendy straw. I sighed. Surely there had to be more to wine than this.
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Jelly Belly® and Wine – What?!?
I can pretty much vouch that even the most passionate of NZ Sauv Blanc winemakers avoid the addition of cat pee into their wines.
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Wine, HGTV, Fixer Upper, and Me
And then for some reason, tiny insects decided that they just had to commit suicide on my freshly painted doors. Besides tweezing their little carcasses from the paint, there was even more razoring, sanding and repainting!
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Real Estate, Wine, and Zen
I have been calling this my “Body Bag House,” because that’s the only way I’m going to be carried out of it when I am very old and very gray. Clairol notwithstanding.
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Terminal Wine
But, as you can probably guess, after a weekend with the grandkids where I did not drink much, I looked forward to having this at home with my feet up and the TV going. Perfect.
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Typicity, Tasting, Hemingway, and Scrooge
When the wine does not have the characteristics that you have come to expect from that varietal then there truly is a Great Disturbance in the Force.
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Robert Parker, Wine, and Menopause
So why is it that the overwhelming majority of official wine tasters and critics are men? It’s not because they’re better at the sniffing or tasting. It’s because they have better memories. And because they don’t go through menopause.
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Wine Tasting at Harley-Davidson
The bikes were awesome although I admit to being a motorcycle coward.
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Paso Robles Wine Festival – Cypher Winery
When I slunk into work the next morning with two unyielding, risqué tattoos in full view, my coworkers at The Day Job™ asked, “Just exactly what were you doing in (insert air quotes here) Wine Country?!?”
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Paso Robles Wine Festival – Winemakers Seminar
Yes, growing grapes is similar to actual farming, but he noted that while regular crops required water in order to live and thrive, grapevines only required water to not die.
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